Swimming: Family connection at Menlo-Atherton

When Menlo-Atherton’s Brooke Stenstrom, our athlete of the week this week, won the 50 and 100 freestyle at the Peninsula Athletic League swim championships she broke school records in each. Those school records, set 24 and 25 years ago, were by Mary Edwards, who went on to swim at Stanford.

While at Stanford, Edwards was the roommate and teammate of Lori Heisick.

Brooke Stenstrom

Heisick, now Lori Stenstrom (married to former Stanford and NFL quarterback Steve Stenstrom), is Brooke’s mother and coach at Menlo-Atherton. This is her first year as head coach and her star swimmer and daughter is a freshman.

“We are a developing team,” coach Stenstrom said. “We’re in stage one of building a dynasty.”

There’s an additional connection between the former and current school record holders.